Word: dwelled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then proposed a solution to the chronic Harvard problem of a losing team: play in a smaller league and, if necessary, abolish football at Harvard altogether. He implied that the only alternative to such de-emphasis is eventual commercialism, the evils of which are too well known to dwell upon...
...Clement Davies rose last week in the House of Commons and said: "I beg to move that this House deplores the decision to continue the banishment of Tshekedi Khama from the Bamangwato Territory . . . and calls upon His Majesty's Government to rescind the order and allow him to dwell freely within the territory of his tribe...
...down in his books, Maciver's theories dwell at random on physics, astronomy, chemistry, anthropology, economics, and religion. First and foremost he asserts "the energy ray of sun is supreme...
...delay while we suspiciously scrutinize the sacrifices made by our neighbors, and through a weasling logic seek some way to avoid our own duties. If we Americans seize the lead, we will preserve and be worthy of our own past ... It is not my place as a soldier to dwell upon the politics, the diplomacy, the particular treaty arrangements." He was merely an individual "with some experience of war and peace." He had confidence in America. "We know that 150 million united Americans constitute the greatest temporal force that has ever existed on God's earth." They must join...
...Could Be Worse." The burdens imposed by England's austerity and bureaucracy haunt many of the paragraphs: ". . . There was a time when rations were things that only soldiers were expected to live on . . ." Sympathizing with civil servants who dwell in "bedsitting rooms,"' the Times asks: "Is it really possible to entertain with any degree of elegance in a room that contains one's pyjamas, and one's butter ration, one's hair oil and one's Empire sherry...